There is a quote from the movie Moneyball: "We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told."

Everyone, for the most part, has been involved in some type of activity that they enjoyed; whether that be sports, dance, choral, band, etc. Everyone has something that they love to do. And whether or not we want to admit it, there will be a time when we realize we're done. For me that time happened at the end of my junior year in high school.

I have been a softball player for about as long as I could walk. So when I stopped playing after my junior year of high school people kept bombarding me with questions like, "Do you not like the sport anymore," or "Are you still going to try and play in college?" The answer to both of these questions is no. I still love the sport and it was VERY difficult to admit to myself that I was done playing, even now.

This past month, I was in so much denial that I told myself I was going to tryout for my college's team; I emailed the coach and everything. After about a week of summer conditioning it hit me that playing this sport was just not going to happen. I know what a lot of people are probably thinking, "Oh, you just don't want to do all of that lifting!" Wrong. Lifting can be a pain but I don't mind doing it at all! The reason I say playing again would be a no-go is because I realized I only wanted to try out simply to appease the people around me. I'm all for trying to make the people around me happy but only if it makes me happy too and to be honest I don't think playing again would make me all too happy. I say that because I've already found my place at college; I have a great group of friends, I'm involved in great clubs on campus, I have a job on campus, and honestly my academics are my main priority. Quite frankly, I have an insufficient amount of time and if I did play it would only make me more stressed than I already am.

So yeah, it was difficult to FINALLY admit that I'm done playing, but honestly I'm totally content with that because I'm happy. Trust me when I say learning to admit anything, even to yourself, will make you feel amazing! Live the life you love and love the life you live!